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2 February 2018
Landslides in the Maipo Valley, Chile
As part of our Newton Fund project, I spent a few days in January looking at the giant landslides of the Maipo Valley in Chile. These are some of my photos of these amazing rockslides and rock avalanches
23 December 2017
Villa Santa Lucia rock avalanche – images of the source zone
Images of the Villa Santa Lucia rock avalanche, inclduing prefailure views of the source and post failure views of the track, are now online
16 September 2017
Landslides from the Kaikoura Earthquake part 2: the Hapuku landslide
The largest landslide triggered by the Kaikoura earthquake was the valley-blocking Hapuku landslide, an impressive 2.7 km long rock avalanche
12 September 2017
Increasing rock avalanche size and mobility in Alaska may be associated with climate change
A new paper (Coe et al. 2017) strongly suggests that the cluster of 24 rock avalanches since 1984 in S. Alaska may be associated with rock permafrost degradation
30 August 2017
Before and after satellite images of the Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche
Planet Labs satellite imagery is now available showing the aftermath of the Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche in Switzerland, which killed eight people
25 August 2017
Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche – Planet satellite imagery captured the landslide in motion
Planet Labs imagery has captured the enormous Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche, which has left eight people missing in Switzerland, in motion
22 June 2017
A recent rock avalanche in the Yumthang Valley in Sikkim, northern India
Friends from NGU, NGI, IIT Kharagpurhttp://www.iitkgp.ac.in/ and WIHG have discovered a recent large rock avalanche in the Yumthang valley of Sikkim in northern India
21 June 2017
Much more detail about the Greenland landslide and tsunami, including images and video
In the last 24 hours new images and video have emerged showing the Greenland landslide and the terrifying tsunami that it triggered.
8 June 2017
The enormous Green Lake landslide in New Zealand
The 27 cubic kilometre Green Lake landslide in Fjordland, southern New Zealand – one of the largest known landslides on the surface of the Earth
28 March 2017
2017 International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan)
In August 2017 the International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley will once again be held in Kyrgyzstan
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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